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Happy Chanukah, Tigers!
27 Kislev, 5775 December 19, 2014
This Week at CJHS
Chanukah Happenings
Happy Chanukah From the PO
CJHS in the Community
This Week in Sports
Alumni in the News
Science Opportunities
CJHS Community Night
Exam Schedule
Sponsored Breakfast
A Taste of Torah
Alumni Trivia
Bright Lights of CJHS
Save the Date
Monday, Dec. 22 -
Friday, Jan. 2
Winter Break Sunday, Jan. 4 - Friday, Jan. 23
Senior Israel Experience Monday, Jan. 12 - Friday, Jan. 16 Winter Exams
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P.O. Corner
The P.O. is pleased to offer the gift card or "Scrip/Gelt" program, designed to help families earn money to apply towards their students' Shabbatonim, Junior Class trip, and Senior Israel Experience. By purchasing gift cards through the school for vendors where you ordinarily shop (groceries, gas, household items, etc), a percentage of what you spend each time will be placed in your family's account to be used for these trips. Gift card orders are placed every Thursday. Please contact Sheri Sandrof at ssandrof@cjhs.org or 847.324.3723 with any questions.
Rabbi Feinsmith's guitar is a-rocking, cookies
are a-frosting, candles are a-twinkling in the
Beit Knesset, and Chanukah has comes to
CJHS!
Fresh
men,
sopho
mores
,
junior
s, and
senior
s
painte
d their
locker
s and decorated their hallways to bring some
holiday spirit, while Engineering Club
sponsored a 3D chanukiyah art challenge and
Gvt. Wasserman and Dr. Berman led the sing-
along with ALL the verses of our favorite
Hebrew Chanukah songs. The sophomore
boys reenacted Judah Maccabee's epic victory
with plastic swords and Nerf battle axes--
unless they were just rehearsing scenes from
Macbeth for Ms. Friedman! Spin the dreidel or
play some improv games at lunch--whatever
brings light into your day!
Each day of the festival
of lights, CJHS honored
the bright lights of our
school, people who have
brought together our
school in new and
important ways to shine
Grandparents and Special Friends Association
Help us get in touch with some very special people in your students' lives! Please reply here with the names, addresses, and emails of their grandparents and/or special friends so we can forward them a membership form to join our "Grandparents and Special Friends Organization". If you provide an email address, they can also begin receiving CJHS e-news. Contact Sheri Sandrof at 847.324.3723 or ssandrof@cjhs.org with any questions.
Sponsor Breakfast
What's better than a birthday celebration with friends? Celebrate your student's birthday or other milestone with a special breakfast at CJHS.
For a donation of $180 (10x chai), bagels, cream cheese, and orange juice will be served to everyone. Announcements will be made in Tefillah and in the dining hall, and the occasion will also
be listed in our weekly E-News and on the school announcement board. If you have any questions, please call 847.324.3713 or email dzidman@cjhs.org. Order forms are available online here.
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light outward to the community. On
Wednesday, Va'ad Tefillah co-chair, Celia
Pivo, invited founding leaders of new clubs to
light the first candle: Justin Lanoff and
Ranan Vales of Film Club and Lucy Cohen
and Lisa Klein of Holla for Challah. On
Thursday, we honored the incredible leaders
of our LGBT organization, Ga'avah, Shira
Romanoff,
Eli
Johnson,
and Sarah
Behn, for
bringing
important
conversatio
ns to CJHS
and fosterin
g an
environmen
t of safety for all of our students. On Friday,
Va'ad Tefillah co-chair Isaac Johnston
honored the freshmen who have had a
leadership role in Tefillah, Hadar Halivni,
Noah Cope, Max Pivo, and Sarah Tenner.
May all of the lights in our community shine
forth!
Happy Chanukah From the P.O.
The CJHS PO
kicked off the
final week
before break
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with a special Chanukah Breakfast. Much
thanks to our co-chairs Sheila Small and Terri
Kraus for their outstanding planning and
execution! Thank you to Susan Laney for
helping with set-up and to traffic
superhero Ari Rosenthal for delivering the
donuts just in time!
Our Fall CJHS PO activities were a huge
success! Thank you to all of our co-chairs,
volunteers and sponsors! From the beginning
of the year Grade Get-Togethers co-chaired by
Maryl Dayan
and Amy
Mishell; our
inaugural CJHS
PO Book
Discussion co-
chaired by
Susan Laney,
Becky Mati and
Abby Polin;
Faculty/Staff
Appreciation
Rosh Hashanah
Gift Bags and
CJHS PO
Chanukah Gift
Fund co-chaired
by Andrea
Becker and Anne McDonagh; to our fantastic
Chanukah Breakfast, we could not have done
it without the involvement of our amazing
CJHS community.
Save The Date!
We have some great events planned for the
spring semester:
Tuesday, February 17, at 7 pm
Our second CJHS PO Book
Discussion
Second Person Singular, by
Sayed Kashua
A Palestinian who writes
in Hebrew, Sayed
Kashua defies
classification and breaks
through cultural barriers.
Second Person Singular
is a gripping tale of love
and betrayal, honesty and artifice, which
asks whether it is possible to truly
reinvent ourselves, to shed our old skin
and start anew.
Wednesday, March 18, doors open at 7
p.m.
Baking
demonstration and
tasting by renowned
cookbook author,
Paula Shoyer
The author of The
Kosher Baker, The
Holiday Kosher
Baker, and soon to
be released The New
Passover Menu, Shoyer will also be signing her
cookbooks available for purchase. Light
refreshments will be served.
Both events are to take place at CJHS. Stay
tuned for more information. Chag Chanukah
Sameach! Have a safe, healthy and happy
winter break.
Karen Ecanow & Liz Geifman
CJHS PO Presidents
po@cjhs.org
Find the Chicagoland Jewish High School
Parent Organization on Facebook!
CJHS in the Community
Club Gidwitz is rocking the holiday spirit,
lighting candles, singing Chanukah songs, and
munching latkes and sufganiyot with our
neighbors over at the CJE residence. Thanks
to the impromptu choir and the residents who
participated
!
DEAP
leaders
Aviva
Hirsch,
Julia Mati,
Sarah
Gilman,
Emily
Zfrani, and
Emily
Reisler,
have
connected
with
Campus
Kitchens, an
organization
using extra
food on Northwestern's campus to create
thousands of meals for locals in need. A
number of students have volunteered, and
there will be more opportunities to work with
Campus Kitchens next semester.
This Week in Sports
The Ten-Pin Tigers are on a roll! The three
finalists in the recent intra-squad bowling
tournament were senior
Hannah Lynch, junior Gabrielle Pretekin
and sophomore Erin Miller. Dr. Auslander,
our stalwart coach reports, "The final round
saw Erin on fire, bowling her best three games
of the season. Since the season began, 28
members have increased their average, and
everyone is experiencing great success."
Senior assistant coach Larry Bender is joined
by David Weisskopf, Hannah Lynch,
Itamar Broekman, Oliver Friedman,
Matthew Duhlberg, Max Gruenberg, Shira
Forester, and Viktor Cin who bowled
personal high games this round. Ranan Vales
has
become
the all
time
leading
CJHS
bowler,
with a
current
173
averag
e. Man
y
thanks
to
assista
nt
coache
s Larry
Bende
r and
Josh
Kaplin
sky for all their help. Watch for
the community invitational after break!
On the basketball court, the Tigers faced
tough opposition this week against Providence
St. Mel, Chicago Hope, Beacon, and Luther
North. Come out after Shabbat to cheer on
the Tigers against Fasman Yeshiva!
Alumni In the News
CJHS graduates are movin' on up! Mazal tov
to Aaron Zell ('13), seen here at the White
House performing at the presidential
Chanukah party with UPenn's a capella group,
the Shabbatones!
Alumni Trivia
Which of our graduates is the big
name in interscholastic journalism
on Uloop? Hint: on her home
campus, she's a Hawkeye!
Science Opportunities
Seniors--interested in applying for a science
program that allows research and an
opportunity to tour Israel? The Weizmann
Institute of Science is offering a full
scholarship, including airfare, for the 47th
International Summer Science Institute
program held July 1-July 29, 2015 in Rehovot,
Israel. Applications are due Monday, March 2,
2015. Please see Mrs. Levinson for more
information and an application and/or visit
http://davidson.weizmann.ac.il/en/issi.
SUSHI AND SAKE TOO:
2nd Annual
Chicagoland Jewish High School
Community Event
Reconnect with old friends, meet new
ones and see what's happening in the
halls of CJHS
Saturday, January 17, 2015
27 Tevet 5775
7:30 p.m.
Suggested Couvert: $50 per person
RSVP to Michelle Friedman by January 9.
Exam Schedule
Click here for the January exam
schedule. Have a wonderful winter break!
Sponsored Breakfast
Happy birthday to David
Steinberg! Many thanks to
his family for sponsoring
breakfast. Many thanks again
to the generous parents of the
P.O. for sponsoring the Chanukah feast on
Monday!
A Taste of Torah: The Miracle of
the Oil
How did our ancestors know the oil was there? To begin with, Jewish priests don't usually stroll around the sacred precincts, tucking small flasks of
sacred supplies into inconvenient closets on the off chance that someone may yet play "find the
afikomen" with a bottle of wine or a cruse of oil. Moreover, children's literature and associated illustrations have blurred the important point: the
Hellenistic officials and their Jewish supporters were not destroying or disarranging the Temple, but using it! Our enemies desecrated the sacred supplies by using them in the service of Zeus: their worship was abominably treif, but by no means untidy! What use would a thunder god have for a sloppy Temple? The Herculean task of the
Maccabean conquerors was not housekeeping, but rekashering all of the ladles and altars used by the Hellenists for their all-pork Bachanalian BBQ!
The Chidushei Harim alone among midrashim explains the nature of the miracle. The old High Priest, meticulous in his observance of hidur mitzvah, insisted that some of the finest extra-virgin olive oil from the bedek ha-bayit (grounds and maintenance fund) be kept back for his own personal use: this holy gentleman insisted on
bringing his own mincha offering with nothing less than the finest of reserve oils. While board members and congregants everywhere may look askance at this use of communal funds, the High Priest's dedication to his sacrifice seeded
hope in the darkest of times, saving the day when all was lost and nothing but a
miracle would do. When the Maccabees retook the Temple and found all the olive oil poured and stored in treif keilim, the question flew from mouth to mouth: where did the old priest keep his special jars of oil?
A search was made and its results were golden:
one tiny jar of oil, sealed with the High Priest's own seal, tucked away on the top shelf of his secretary's supply closet with a spare set of teffilin, a retired havdalah set, half a cup of semolina, and a vintage
bottle of the 425 BCE Shiraz. Intended for a mincha offering alone, this tiny bottle was not enough to light a lamp for one day, let alone for eight; to the Maccabees, however, an hour of light was better than none at all, and they resolved to make do with what they had. A miracle! The oil lasted for eight days, and the wine had only
improved with age. (Imrei Eliaser!)
And so, concludes the Chidushei Harim, when you do a mitzva, never do it by halves. Make
everything you do as special as you can possibly make it. Do it with style, with beauty, and with the best things you have. After all, who knows what special touch only you can make might spark a miracle for someone else?
--Mrs. Shira Eliaser
Alumni Trivia
Natalie Roytman ('11) is a
senior at the University of
Iowa, majoring in journalism
and international studies. She
is one of the most notable
writers on the Uloop circuit,
covering travel, fashion, and
campus issues. Natalie is an avid
photographer and travels with her friends
whenever she gets the opportunity!
Shabbat Shalom
Candlelighting this week is at
4:03. Shabbat shalom and
Happy Chanukah!
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